Financial Services: Partner profiles

Charles Muchene is the out-going Country Leader for Kenya. He also leads the Financial Services industry group in Kenya and has extensive experience in providing audit and business advisory services to banking and other financial services clients in the Eastern African region.

Naval Sood is a partner in our Corporate Finance and Strategy practice in East and Central Africa, with specific responsibility for the Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, as well as Valuation and Strategy service areas. He leads our financial services sector advisory practice in East and Central Africa. He has over 16 years’ work experience, focusing on capital markets, corporate finance and privatisation advice throughout the East and Central Africa region. He also has extensive experience of working with financial institutions in the region, assisting in their restructuring, development and privatisation.

Richard Njoroge is an Assurance partner and a member of the firm’s specialist financial services group and over the years has had responsibilities for financial services clients in various countries in the East African region. He has been the audit partner for a number of banks in Kenya and has also been involved in special assignments in banking institutions such as financial due diligence, special investigations and audit of initial International Financial Reporting Standards accounts for privatisation purposes. He has 21 years experience with the firm.

Kang’e Saiti is an Assurance partner specialising in providing services to clients in the banking and capital markets sub-sectors, with emphasis on corporate, retail and private banking as well as consumer finance, leasing and off-shore investment management. He has been with the firm for over 11 years. Besides his specialism in banking, capital markets and investment management, he has been involved in a variety of other roles in the firm including technical training to clients and staff as well as responsibility for quality control in Kenya and across the firm’s practices in the region.

Martin Whitehead is a partner leading the regional restructuring team for Business Recovery Services in Africa Central. He has over 14 years experience in providing advisory and executory services to lenders and under performing businesses. He has been involved in restructuring and turnaround advice in Kenya and West Africa and also played a lead role in recent Government sponsored forensic audits in Kenya, Ghana and Zambia.